bristlecones

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

A section of New York City on Manhattan Island east of Fifth Avenue. The northern part, approximately between 57th Street and 96th Street, is also known as the Upper East Side and includes many fashionable shops and residences. The Lower East Side, south of 14th Street, was long a home to immigrants from eastern Europe.

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n. Plural form of bristlecone.

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Examples

If the bristlecones are a good proxy, it looks like they are the only tree ring series that are.

For MBH, they used their MBH98 PC1 (bristlecones) as a temperature proxy without either – no biological growth curve and no statistical analysis to show that either the cedars or the bristlecones were a valid proxy (and in the face of explicit specialist literature to the contrary.)